[Hidden-tech] Network Solutions forcing users to upgrade to PHP5

[Daniel Fried]

Adam,

 

As mentioned, PHP4 was recently EOL'd.  As such, it would be irresponsible
for large-scale hosting providers to allow it to remain in general use.  I
imagine that most if not all of the other webhosts you refer to will be
doing the same in the near future if they haven't done so already.

 

If they do not, I would recommend moving away from them to a provider that
has discontinued PHP4.  Unpatched versions of PHP are a security risk for
everyone using the system, even if you are careful to work around any
potential problems in your code (assuming that is possible), the server
itself could easily become compromised.

 

-Dan

 

 

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[mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of Adam
Connor
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 6:57 PM
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Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Network Solutions forcing users to upgrade to
PHP5

 

Thanks guys.  I guess my major confusion is to why Network Solutions is
forcing the upgrade.  Most of the webhosts I've worked with offer support
for both versions 5 and 4, in order to better support customers, and not
panic them (as is the case with my client).

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Robert Hafner
<rhafner at solunaenterprises.com> wrote:

Adam,

 

PHP4 has been EOL'd- its at its end of life. This means that there are no
more updates coming out for it, although they will look at security problems
and judge them on severity when deciding to patch them, but only until
September. After September even security issues will be ignored. The primary
reason for this is that PHP5 has been out since 2003 and supporting two
versions of the language is burdensome.

 

This has been announced for well over a year, so its surprising the NetSol
hasn't mentioned this previously. There are some webhosts out there (myself
included) that offer setups which run both php4 and php5 simultaneously in
order to help with migration. For the most part it is not too difficult of
an upgrade, and PHP5 is a much more robust language. To be honest, as a PHP
developer I've been programming almost exclusively with PHP5 because of all
the advantages it offers. PHP4 was seriously lacking in a lot of ways, in
speed, security, and scalability, and PHP5 was designed to fix that problem.

 

Robert

 

 

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I just received an email from a client saying the her hosting provider,
Network Solutions, is forcing her to upgrade her site from PHP4 to PHP5.
Unfortunately, her site doesn't work in PHP5 and would need a fair amount of
work to update in order to get it to do so.

I know the reputation Network Solutions has(I don't personally like or use
them myself), and I'm not looking to start a thread on why they're bad.
What I'd like to know is:
1.) Does anyone know more about why they're forcing this upgrade?
2.) Does anyone have any advice for her on how to approach modifying her
code (i.e. what the major differences between PHP 4 and 5 are)?

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